In 2025, the Military Health System celebrates 30 years of providing data-driven evidence to help military leaders understand health trends and make informed decisions about who can serve and how to keep the force healthy and ready to win the fight

Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Laura Barrera shares her journey from enlisted senior airman to a flight surgeon and emergency physician. She credits her success to the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical School Preparatory Program, or EMDP2 — which charts a course for enlisted service members to become doctors, including challenging coursework, ...

Air Force Capt. (Dr.) Lindsay Slimski has never let life’s challenges stop her from achieving her dreams of pursuing medicine. She shares her story of resilience in the face of challenges, and her unique approach to becoming a military doctor through the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program.

Each month, MSMR publishes a reportable medical event update for active component service members as well as Military Health System beneficiaries, documented through the Disease Reporting System internet.

This report examines trends in the prevalence of obesity over the past decade among U.S. active component service members and civilians, ages 17-62 years, overall and by sex, comparing age-standardized distributions of body mass index.

Since 2004, MSMR has published annual updates on the incidence of cold weather injuries affecting U.S. Armed Forces members for the five most recent cold seasons. This 2025 report discusses the occurrence of frostbite, immersion hand and foot injuries, hypothermia, as well as “other specified and unspecified effects of reduced temperature.”

This report describes the seven-year prevalence of five perinatal mental health disorders among U.S. active duty service women: trauma and stressor-related disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, depressive disorders, suicidal ideation or attempt, and eating disorders.

This report summarizes the numbers, types and incidence rates of mental health disorder diagnoses among U.S. active component service members over a five-year surveillance period.

Army Capt. (Dr.) Kristan Baird was a medic deployed in Afghanistan. Once home again, juggling family life and figuring out what’s next, she decided to become a military doctor. Her journey began in the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program, or EMDP2, at the Uniformed Services University.

This annual update summarizes incidence rates and trends of the most frequent sexually transmitted infections among U.S. active component service members: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, human papilloma virus (HPV), and genital herpes simplex virus (HSV).

This report describes the incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia in male Air Force basic trainees and compares follow up testing and clinical outcomes with female basic trainees.

This retrospective evaluation utilized contact tracing data collected by Army Public Health Nursing to identify sexual networks of U.S. service members infected with chlamydia at a single military base.

This annual update summarizes numbers and trends of new HIV antibody seropositivity among U.S. active and reserve component service members, in addition to National Guard members.

This study employed multiple forecasting methods in an effort to predict future Lyme disease and tick bites among U.S. Military Health System beneficiaries, with comparisons to actual outpatient encounter data.

MSMR publishes a monthly summary of reportable medical events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet by Military Health System care providers and public health officials.